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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1905
Page
8
Congress readies a timeless polygamy ruling and next addresses divorce with fresh bills. A lighthearted note contemplates race death by own action law and expurgated Congressional Record editions. Seed allowances for each Congressman are sliced to 62,794 packages as economy drives Washington.
A 1905 Idaho inquiry clarifies that the Penal Code section on gambling covers any game where value is at stake including cigars and drinks. Attorney General J J Gunmen states the phrase or other representative of value equals anything having value, deeming such games illegal.
After a glance at Hoch’s pictures, the much married blue beard figure strengthens belief in hypnotism. Most women would have needed an aesthetic.
A Brooklyn minister questions why men fond of gambling do not head to Wall Street rather than poker. He cites the high ante and no limit on the game as factors influencing the choice.
Senator Lodge argues the government seeds are a humbug and the rancher agrees, criticizing seeds bought for being cheap and of poor quality.
Senator Macbeth introduces 8S. B. No. 50 to Idaho legislature defining various idle or dissolute persons as vagrants. The bill targets those lacking work, beggars, wanderers at night, lodgers in nonresidential spaces, prostitutes and drunkards, and any who operate or rent premises for illicit houses. Punishment is stated as imprisonment in county jail.
A seven year old New York student who failed promotion was teased by classmates until he died. The piece reflects on hazing’s reach into primary classes and recalls adults’ memories of wishing to die in youth.
The Washington police courts record more wife beaters arrested last year than ever before though no account is made of charges withdrawn by wives or of beaten wives who said nothing. If Adams bill creates a whipping post, a decline in wife beating may follow. The text urges readers to subscribe to The Salt Lake Tribune as a daily substitute.
In Philadelphia a clergyman remarks that both politics and hell share the same danger. A U S Court in Cleveland rules an American wife of a foreigner need not pay her spouse’s debts, a decision seen as an awful blow to international marriages.
Three states Tennessee Arkansas and Kentucky have not dispatched their electoral votes by the January 23 deadline though the law specifies the time. The President-elect shows no signs of worry as the situation remains unresolved.
Application for patent filed by Charles Crane for the Idaho Bull Dog Buck Horn and Republican lodes in the Boise Meridian Idaho. Mining claim covers 78 880 acres with 1500 ft each on Idaho and Bull Dog 136% ft on Buck Horn 1427 ft on Republican and 600 ft surface ground. Survey details and corner bearings given. located in Township 14 North Range 13 East Challis area. Publication in The Silver Messenger nine weeks starting Feb 21 1905.
In Custer county Idaho a notice to creditors of the estate of R. O. Ferguson deceased is published. The administrator Clyde Bergeson invites all creditors and claimants to present their claims with vouchers within four months of first publication at his Charlis office. Published February 21 1905.
Admission prices listed include adults fifty cents and children twenty five cents for a community ball event with tickets selling at one dollar fifty cents and additional charges for extra seating.
In Custer County Idaho the Probate Court for Benjamin I Wood deceased orders heirs and interested parties to appear February 87 1905 at 10 am in Challis to show cause why an executor should not be granted a sale of all or part of the real estate to pay debts and administration costs. A copy of this order will be published four weeks in The Sulpher Messenger. Judgment by J G Bennett Probate Judge dated January 97 1905 with first publication January 31 1905.
The warrants against Custer county will be paid with interest to date if presented within 60 days from the date of this notice. Current Expense Fund Jan Issue 1905 Nos 202 to 206 inclusive. Current Road Fund July Issue 1904 Nos 54 to 62 inclusive. October Issue 1904 Nos 63 to 88 inclusive. Jan Issue 1905 Nos 89 to 4 inclusive. Interest .07 percent from registry to 10 days after this advertisement. J Olype County Treasurer dated Jan 1905?
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